Review: Nobel laureate Coetzee's compelling new novel is a riddle wrapped up in an enigma - San Jose Mercury News . In "Boyhood" and "Youth," the Nobel Prize-winning South African writer J.M. Coetzee employed a third-person narrator, and the oddly distancing present tense gave th
Paperback Row - List - NYTimes.com . LARK AND TERMITE , by Jayne Anne Phillips (Vintage Contemporaries, $14.95.) A young soldier dies in Korea in 1950 while his wife gives birth back home; nine years later, in West Virginia, their profoundly disabled yet "beautiful and calm" son is lovingl